Around Antonio

Principal

Karen Patten

Assistant Principal

Jan MacDonald

Assistant Principal

Annette Hayes

631-639 Whitehorse Rd

Mitcham 3132

Ph 9874 4371

Fax 9873 5505

E-mail address : antonio.park.ps@edumail.vic.gov.au

Web Site : www.antoniops.vic.edu.au

Our School Values

ERRIC

Empathy Responsibility Resilience Independence Confidence

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5 September 2013 Issue 28

Tuesday

10 September

Level 1

Walk to Coles

Wednesday

11 September

Level 1

Big Breakfast

Tuesday

17 September

Production

Wednesday

18 September

Production

Friday

20 September

End of term

2.30 finish

Monday

7 October

First day

Term 4

Monday

21 October

Level 4 Sport & Year 6 Graduation

Photos

Aussie of the week

Congratulations to everyone celebrating a

birthday this week.

Dear Antonio Park Families,

2014 Prep Enrolments & Prep Transition program

Term 3 sees the school confirming enrolments across

all levels, especially Prep.

Those families who have not enrolled their prep child

for 2014, please do so as soon as possible. It will as-

sist us greatly with the planning, preparation and run-

ning of this year’s Prep Transition program and it will

assist us greatly with planning for 2014.

Thank you To Our Father’s Day Stall Helpers

Last Friday we had a number of parents who helped at

our Father's Day stall; which

was very popular!!!

Thank you to Mandy and Sha-

ron for their organisation and

to their wonderful helpers!!!!!

Visitors to APPS

APPS has a lot of community involvement, ranging

from parents who help in the classroom on a daily ba-

sis, mums and dads assisting in great events such as

our production, the lovely Little APPS to external visit-

ing support teachers. The Department of Education

and Early Childhood requires all schools to have in

place a process where a school has a record of who is

on site during the school day. The purpose of this is for

the safety of students, to ensure students know the

adult on site is on site for approved school work. The

other aspect is that in the event of an emergency evac-

uation, we need to be able to account for everyone.

To be in line with DEECD requirements, when visiting

the school, whether you’re here for a short time, e.g.

dropping your child off to the classroom after an ap-

pointment or here for the day helping, we require you to

sign in and wear a visitor’s badge. Our sign displayed

in the front reception area outlines the rationale and

purpose:

Keeping our students safe. Wearing a visitor’s

badge tells our students and staff that the adult

is on site for approved school business.

We need to be able to account for all persons

on site in case of an emergency evacuation.

The sign in/sign out book enables us to do

this.

Equally important - it is lovely to have a record

of how mums and dads support our programs!

Large scale events such as whole school assembly,

athletic carnivals, etc. do not require people to sign in.

District Athletics

Congratulations to all the students who competed at the

District Athletics on Tuesday. Please refer to the Physical

Education article for further details. Thankyou to Darren Mac

for his wonderful organisation.\

Karen Patten

Assistant Principals

Hello from Level 2! 2JS and 2CN are completing their second week of swimming and we

would like to thank all the parents that came along to help out. Production is well underway and we are preparing for our first whole school rehearsal on Friday. There are a few classes that are still waiting

on some costumes so please make sure these continue to come in. There will be a whole school production rehearsal on Tuesday September 17 at the theatre. Notes were sent home with the relevant information and a permission slip. Please return the permission slip to your child’s

teacher as soon as possible.

In maths we are learning about time! We are revising how to read the time on an analogue and digital clock. Later in the week we will be look-ing at calendars and elapsed time. We are encouraging students to wear watches to school so that they can practise reading different times

throughout their day. We are working very hard on our Procedural Writing and have been busy creating many different recipes and instructions. If you make something at home for breakfast, lunch or dinner encourage your child to discuss the

steps and requirements needed. We hope you have had a wonderful week! Level 2 Team

What’s Happening In Level 1?

What’s Happening In Level 2?

As Production is only two weeks away students will be involved in their first whole school rehearsal this Friday. We have been working so hard on our performances and are really looking forward to performing and

watching the show. This week our spelling focus has been on the letter Xx and we have been looking at words with the blend ‘sion’. During maths we have been looking at subtraction and we have been using calculators to ex-plore various skip counting patterns. We have also been looking at worded problems and discussed strategies to solve the problem. We are still working on Procedural Writing this week and students are going

to write a procedure on ‘How to Make a Fruit Salad’. The Level One ‘Walk to Coles’ is next Tuesday and just a friendly remind-er that the permission notes and money needs to be returned for your child to attend. Can you please see your child’s teacher if you can help with the walk to Coles. Next Wednesday we will be having our Big Break-

fast! Have a fantastic weekend Level 1 Team

PRODUCTION NEWS!!! One week to go! Everything’s coming to-gether beautifully and you can feel the ex-citement building. There is a powerful team spirit about the school as everybody strives to make their performance the best it can be. We are constantly amazed and impressed at what the students can achieve when teacher expectations and student enthusiasm are

high.

Just some reminders for you:

17th and 18th September (Tuesday and Wednesday)

Junior Production (L1-3) “Wish Upon A Star.” 7.30-8.30pm

Senior Production (L4) “A Kidsummer Night’s Dream” 9.00pm

A Production note has been sent home this week with last minute re-minders and organisation for dropping off and picking up children in

Levels 1, 2 and 3. Jan and Annette

SCHOOL BANKING

CLAIMING OF TOKENS

When claiming token prizes, please ensure you

enclose your Rewards Coupon plus 10 Tokens.

Please allow 2 - 3 weeks for processing.

CAFÉ ANTONIO

will be closed on Tuesday September

17 due to production rehearsal at the

theatre.

Please ensure you send lunch and a

snack with your child on that day.

What’s Happening In Level 4?

What’s Happening In Level 3?

What a busy week in Level 3! We have been fitting a lot into the past week with our reading, writing and maths programs as well as swimming and not to mention the most exciting upcoming event, PRODUCTION!

In our level it has been paper warfare lately, so in one place, here are all the

list of reminders:

ICT film making permission (pink notice)

Procedural Writing pizza making note

Production Bus permission (white notice)

Camp attendance slip and expression of interest for parent helpers

Footy lunch order

$55.00 camp deposit due by FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 13

We are in the process of organising our school camp to Gundiwindi Lodge in Silvan. Could you please send back the slip to let us know that your child will be coming. It is very important all students attend camp. If you have any

issues or concerns please do not hesitate to speak to your child’s

teacher.

If you are interested in attending camp please fill in the blue slip and return to your child’s teacher. We will aim to have the parent help list finalised by the end of term to enable you to arrange time off work. It is a lot of hard work and not much time to sit and relax. However it is a fantastic and rewarding experience. We are looking forward to

hearing from you.

All information will come in due course, please stay tuned to the newsletter for updates on camp. Lastly on camp, next term we will be holding an information night where all families, both students and parents, are expected to attend. This will give you plenty of important

camping information.

Level 3 Team

There is lots going on in Level 4 at the moment! The students have been undertaking different electricity experiments to coincide with our Procedural Writing program. This integrated approach to learning allows the students hands on science experience and the opportunity to transfer this into their

own writing. Production is creeping up very quickly and everything is coming together nicely. Thank you to the many parents involved for all their help and to Mr. S for his hard work directing the show. It’s going to be fantastic! Check out all

the photos of our recent activities.

District Athletics Day What a gorgeous day we had for District Athlet-ics on Tuesday! Level 4 students attended the carnival with the sun shining and our students ready for a fun filled day. Congratulations to all of the students who participated, you all tried your very best and represented your school brilliantly! Further congratulations to the stu-dents who will progress to the next stage of competition (please see Mr. Mac’s inclusion for

further details). We were so proud of the students’ sensational behaviour and enthusiasm on the day. Antonio Park students should be very proud of them-selves! Thank you to the parents who either came to help or support the students involved and to Mr. Mac for his sensational preparation and organi-

sation. We couldn’t do it without you! Level 4 Swimming Program Just a reminder to families that swimming payments are due back as soon as possible. Medical forms will be sent home today for participating students. If you did not receive a form and will be joining the program, please see your

classroom teacher for a copy.

Year 6 Graduation Just a couple of important dates for our Year 6 families in the lead up to the end of the year. Graduation will be held on the final Tuesday of Term 4, December 17. The class of 2013 graduation photo will be taken on Monday October 21. This will also be the date of sports photographs for all Level 4

students. Level 4 Production Just a few quick messages for our upcoming ‘A Kidsummer Night’s Dream’ production, to be held on Tuesday September 17 and

Wednesday September 18. We would really appreciate any offers of help for face painting. Please see your classroom teacher if you are available on either of

the performance nights to lend a hand. Level 4 students require ‘blacks’ for performance: black t-shirt (short

or long sleeve) and leggings/black pants. A notice to families regarding performance nights will be distributed next week. We really appreciate the help of families to ensure stu-dents arrive at the theatre on time and with the appropriate make up.

Please refer to this notice for all information. Have a wonderful end to the week! Kate, Mitch, Clive, Rachel and Karen Level 4 Team

What’s Happening In Physical Education?

District Athletics 2013 What an excellent effort by all Antonio Park students at the District Sports.

Being our first performance in this District, we certainly displayed very good skills in all areas. Highlights were the ball games and relays where our teams performed remarkably with great support for each other . We won tunnel ball in all 3

age groups and 10 and 12 year shuttle relays. The 12 year boys won their circular relay. In individual events, 9 students won their events, qualifying for the Division Sports on Thursday October 10 (Week 1 of Term 4). Those students are listed below: YEARS 10/11/12 Georgia W 200m; Shot Put Chantelle U Discus; Triple Jump Mackenzie I Long Jump Raj D 100 m Alex M Discus Mathew N High Jump; Shot Aaron PB 100m ; 200m Eliza K Triple Jump Isabella F 1500m 4 x 100m relay AaronPB, Michael M, Vula, Lian Our school finished 2nd overall, winning the field event trophy; coming 2nd in the ball games events and 5th in the track events. Well done to all students and thank you to the teachers and parents who supported them so well. Darren McMenaman Phys Ed

ERRIC AWARD

MATHLETICS AWARD

Congratulations Jade Warton and

Cassandra Moskalewicz

You have been awarded the ERRIC Certificate for

demonstrating empathy, confidence and

responsibility when helping younger students out in

the yard.

You are a wonderful role

model to everyone at

Antonio Park Primary

School and the Peace

Makers and Teachers are

very impressed.

Well done!

Next Wednesday the 11th September the JSCs are running a Footy Colours Day. Children can come dressed in their favourite footy colours whether it be AFL, NRL, Soccer, or any sport’s colours that they like. Students will be asked to bring in a gold coin donation to wear their favourite footy colours and this money will go towards the Fight Cancer Foundation. We look forward to seeing everyone dressed up for Footy Colours Day!

Skye and Ti-Ana checking up on

some Junior students.

Ways to Praise

Praise: Verb: Express warm approval or admiration of. Praising someone is a way of making them feel good.

Your hair looks beautiful today!

You are the bestest friend ever!

I love how neat your handwriting is!

Give someone some praise today because everyone deserves to smile and feel happy.

COMMUNITY NOTICES (Please check the Community Noticeboard for further details)

Morack Public Golf Course and Driving Range Vermont South, ‘Juniors Play for Free’ promotion. The program provides opportunity for junior golfers to play for free when accompanied by a paying adult at selected times. Offer extended throughout school holiday period as well as weekends until December 2013. Open Day also on October 27 with free golf clinics for adults and juniors, plus lots of activities.

Contact Dean Trobbiani, 0488 388 553 or www.golfservicesmanagement.com.au

Seniors Human Library, Wednesday October 16, 10.00am—1.00pm, Nunawading Library. A Human Library is: Borrow a book with a difference. The ‘books’ are actually senior community members who can be borrowed for 20 minutes, engaging in conversation with their ‘borrowers’. Through these conversations you will have the chance to connect with and learn

from people with different life experiences and backgrounds to develop a greater understanding of one another.

Little Athletics Nunawading 2013 Registration Day, Friday September 20, 5.00-7.00pm. Bill Sewart Athletics Track, Melways ref. 62 C8.

Contact Registrar, Sue Power 0419 131 964, registrar@Ian.asn.au

APPS 2013 WALK-A-THON The Junior School Council and PAG have an exciting event coming up in Term 4 that will boost our tally for the new junior playground. We will be holding a whole

school walk-a-thon! The date is being finalised and details are being nutted out but keep your eyes peeled for more information in the coming weeks. Sponsorship forms will be coming home before the end of term so you have the holidays to find as many family, friends and neighbours to donate or sponsor an

amount per lap. The event will be taking place on the school oval over the course of the day with a sausage sizzle lunch and other treats. There may even be some prizes up for

grabs!!

FATHER’S DAY STALL THANK YOU A really big thank you to all the parent helpers who helped us run the Father's Day Stall last Friday at school. The day of the stall is always a big day, getting through 22 classes and making sure no child misses out on purchasing a gift for their Dad, Grandad, Step dad, etc. Without the support of the school community we are unable to run this event, so thank you so much. After 3 fun years of managing the Mother's Day and Father's Day stalls, we are passing on our baton. We wish Caitlin, who is taking over the stall, the very best of luck and please keep supporting Caitlin in the coming year. Best wishes Sharon Stuchbery & Mandy Jamieson PS: If you still have an IOU to settle from the stall, please pay at the office as soon as possible.

Aussie of the Week Awards

1LF Leroy S For his fantastic listening skills during production rehearsal. Your manners are beautiful

Leroy and set a good example to others. 1LC Finn S For your ongoing commitment to your work. You consistently strive to produce your best. 1SG Jamison S For being a kind and caring classmate. You are a great friend. 2BC Jack P For enthusiasm during all writing sessions. Well done Jack! 2CC Lily D For your responsible attitude towards your working. It is great to see you working hard every

day. 2CE Charlie B For showing great independence when doing your work. Your procedural text on ‘how to

make a sandwich’ was excellent! 2CN Georgia S For being a great friend. You are always looking out for other people and helping anyone in

need. 2SP Corey B For showing confidence and independence towards all tasks! It is fantastic to see you put-

ting up your hand and listening carefully. Well done! 3AB Nelson S For always displaying the ERRIC values in the classroom and in the yard! You’re a great

role model! 3BR Connor B For the outstanding effort you put into your literature book. I love listening to your contribu-

tions in our weekly discussions. 3DH Jye M For writing a detailed procedural piece on ‘how to make a pizza’. Wonderful writing Jye! 3NM Joel C For displaying a confident and positive approach towards our action verbs discussion. Super

effort! 3RM Jasmine B For careful data collection and interesting conclusions made from your graph. A great effort. 4CH Angus T For working well throughout the week and displaying a positive attitude and effort to his work.

Well done Angus! 4KD Flynn N For setting an excellent example to others. Your consistently show the ERRIC values of

independence, responsibility and confidence. 4KT Jordan R For your outstanding contributions to all of our class discussions. We love hearing your

thoughts in Book Club. 4RF Dipra B For being such a caring and enthusiastic member of our class. Your kindness, cheerful smile

and sense of humour brightens up our classroom everyday. 4MN Ruggieri S For the hard work you have been putting into your procedural writing. Your recipe for fettuc-

cine carbonara was fantastic! Keep it up! Junior PE Amelia 2CN For your amazing ideas and suggestions to make your rocket ship 3D. Keep those creative

thoughts coming. Fantastic! Junior Library Shertahnie 1EA For her amazing overarm throwing during sport. Gus and Larry were getting ready to catch

it! Keep trying your best! Well done!